Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology (Mathematics in Science and Engineering) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128140666 ISBN 13: 9780128140666

Publisher: Academic Press, 2018

Synopsis

Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology introduces students and researchers to a panorama of powerful and current methods for mathematical problem-solving in modern computational biology. Presented in a modular format, each topic introduces the biological foundations of the field, covers specialized mathematical theory, and concludes by highlighting connections with ongoing research, particularly open questions. The work addresses problems from gene regulation, neuroscience, phylogenetics, molecular networks, assembly and folding of biomolecular structures, and the use of clustering methods in biology. A number of these chapters are surveys of new topics that have not been previously compiled into one unified source. These topics were selected because they highlight the use of technique from algebra and combinatorics that are becoming mainstream in the life sciences.

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About the Authors

Raina Robeva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and is a Professor of Mathematics and a Karl E. Peace Fellow in Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in the United States. Her current research is in the broad fields of mathematical and systems biology. In addition to editing this second edition, she has authored and edited several books, including A Bridge to Higher Mathematics (CRC Press, 2024), Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology (Academic Press, 2019), and Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Methods for Modern Biology (Academic Press, 2015). She has chaired the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), led the Committee on Special Interest Groups of the Mathematical Association of America, and served for over a decade as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Systems Biology.

Matthew Macauley is an Associate Professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. Since finishing his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, he has been a research visitor at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, and the University of Southern Denmark. He has also taught internationally in both South Africa and Taiwan. Macauley has supervised two PhD and five MS students, as well as a number of undergraduate research students. With Raina Robeva, he has co-organized three faculty development workshops on teaching discrete and algebraic methods in mathematical biology to undergraduates.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128140666
• ISBN 13: 9780128140666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434
• Editor: Robeva Raina, Macauley Matthew